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Burn a Mac Boot Disk in Windows
Name: Bryan888 Date: October 31, 2003 at 16:15:01 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
what is the best program for creating bootable Mac disks (OS 9) in windows (98)
Name: bob Date: November 1, 2003 at 08:51:22 Pacific
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Good luck with this one :(
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Response Number 2
Name: Outlander Date: November 4, 2003 at 09:18:15 Pacific
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You can clone mac boot CD's in windows, but other than that it is pretty impossible to make a bootable mac CD in windows. Try direct CD to clone.
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Response Number 3
Name: Ladyhoodoo Date: November 13, 2003 at 13:43:22 Pacific
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I have WindowsXP. Just to see if it could be done, I burned a Mac boot disk. Darned if it didn't work. The disk runs fine in my Mac. I used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5. You can't use the "create a data disk" option, because it says Windows can't read it because it's in a different format. Use the "disk copy" option.
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